Technoscientific imaginaries : conversations, profiles, and memoirs

摘要: What is it like to be a scientist at the end of 20th century? How have shifts in power and assumptions about knowledge affected scientific practice? Who are people behind new technologies, how do they address difficult moral professional issues during time global change? This work explores these other important questions approach next millennium. 24 contributors from broad range fields present voices scientists themselves. Through interviews, conversations memoirs text presents: Lithuanian physicists who discuss science after Communism their own fantasies what Western is; Japanese-American woman struggling with her ambivalence over designing nuclear weapons; political activists India examine relations among science, environmental politics government ideology aftermath Bhopal disaster; many others, including biologists, physicians, corporate researchers working virtual reality cutting-edge technologies.